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Suffering from Lyme disease herself, Jo Anne Whitaker, M.D., F.A.A.P., President and Director of Research at Bowen Research & Training Institute, Inc. in Palm Harbor, Florida, has developed a blood test useful in evaluating treatment by comparing pre and post serial dilution results. Dr. Whitaker affirms: "We have now tested over 3,500 [blood] specimens, with 500 of these [specimens] from very sick children. They come from a wide geographical distribution and all are positive for cell-wall-deficient Lyme disease.

"The primary question is 'why are there no negatives?'" Dr. Whitaker goes on to ask, "Does everyone have it?.....Since 1999, all blood cultures have been positive with Bb, there were no negatives. We believe this indicates the magnitude of the problem. We believe the problem is not only endemic but may also be reaching epidemic proportions. Early diagnosis is mandatory so that treatment can begin immediately to provide opportunity for cure and prevent chronic Lyme disease.

Lyme Disease Recognition and Transmission

While the modern concept of Lyme disease is said to have been first described as a mysterious outbreak of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis occurring near the town of Lyme, Connecticut in 1977, a semblance of it was originally identified in Germany in 1883, in the town of Breslau. One of the main carriers or etiologic vectors of Ld was discovered in 1982 by entymologist William "Willy" Burgdorfer, Ph.D., M.D. (hon.). Dr. Burgdorfer isolated spirochetes from the mid-guts of one of the Ixodes ticks. The proven Lyme vectors include various deer tick species such as Ixodoes dammini and Ixodes scapularis, Lone Star ticks (Ammblyoma americanum), western black-legged ticks (Ixodes pacificus), dog ticks also known as wood ticks (Dermacentor variabilis), and others. Note that ticks are not insects; as adults, they are bloodsucking, 8-legged arachnids (arthropods) along with spiders, scorpions, chiggers, and mites.

Providing an excellent internet report on personal experiences with fighting off his own Ld infection, Scott Taylor, D.V.M., writes: "There is a tremendous misunderstanding regarding the Lyme disease tick vector. Critical information is not being reported by health officials to the public and medical community. The widespread distribution of these tick vectors greatly increases the prevalence of Lyme disease well beyond that of official reports. The public needs to understand the potential danger of all tick bites, not only that from the deer tick."

 

Description of the Organism Causing Lyme Borreliosis

Dr. Burgdorfer had demonstrated that the spirochetes, Borrelia burgdorferi, reacted with immune serum from patients that had been diagnosed with Lyme disease. Resembling the syphilis spirochete, Treponema pallidum, the Ld spirochete was given the name Borrelia burgdorferi after its finder. Since the organism's discovery by Dr. Burgdorfer, about 100 American and 300 worldwide strains of Borrelia have been uncovered.

Even though the transmission of Bb organism can occur through the bite of the above-reported tick, Lyme disease authorities now recognize that the spirochete is vectored by fleas, mosquitoes, mites, through human sexual contacts, congenital transfer, and as a food infection.

The Bb organism is pleomorphic (changes shape) from a spiral to a filament to a cyst, to a granule, to a hooked rod, or the bacteria assumes an elbow appearance. All of these pleomorphics are described by the Lister Institute as "L-forms" and show under the microscope as cell-wall deficient They produce no antibody response since a cell wall is lacking to which an infected

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